Sarah Fisher Racing, IUPUI Students Visit Auto Research Center
Paddock Talk, July 1, 2009 - Students in IUPUI's summer vehicle dynamics class spent half a day at the Auto Research Center, one of the motorsports industry's leading test facilities.
http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News
&file=article&sid=113240&newlang=&topic=10&catid=0

NFL Asks for Court Ruling on Merchandise Case
Sify News, June 30, 2009 - The National Football League is going to the Supreme Court in search of a bigger victory in an antitrust tussle over team merchandise. "Even though they risk losing this case, the potential gain for all sports leagues from having the Supreme Court affirm the decision would be huge," said Gary Roberts, dean of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis and a former lawyer for the NFL.
http://sify.com/news/national/fullstory.php?a=jg4hf3aeeib&title=NFL_asks_for_court_ruling_on_merchandise_case

Phelps, Torres Highlight Entries for US Swimming Championships at IUPUI Natatorium
Associated Press, June 30, 2009 - Michael Phelps and Dara Torres are among more than 25 members of the 2008 U.S. Olympic team expected to compete in the national swimming championships at the IUPUI Natatorium. The July 7-11 meet will determine the U.S. team for the world championships.
http://www.mcall.com/sports/sns-ap-swm-usa-championships,0,744306.story

Also:
The New York Times, June 30, 2009:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/30/sports/AP-SWM-USA-Championships.html?_r=2

Need for Chinese Language Teachers Growing, IU Responding
IU Newsroom, June 29, 2009 - The Confucius Institute, established at IUPUI in 2007, is cited as one IU program working to meet the growing need for Chinese language teaching programs.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11273.html

The Real Cost of Our "Disease Care" System
LiveScience, June 29, 2009 - Dr. David Orentlicher (IU School of Law-Indianapolis), co-director of the Center for Law and Health, is quoted in editorial about whether health care reform will take place and whether it will be effective. The trouble, Orentlicher predicts, is that the reform will not be deep enough and will not result in coverage for all.
http://www.livescience.com/health/090629-health-care.html

New Biomarker Method Could Increase the Number of Diagnostic Tests for Cancer
Biotech Intelligence, June 29, 2009 - Cancer researchers from the IU School of Medicine are among a team which has developed a method with the potential to increase accuracy in detecting cancer biomarkers so that cancer can be caught in its earliest stages.
http://www.biotech-intelligence.com/html/html/pool_7/0f57ee7dfb46e954f7b43650c48e57d9.html

Lead in Soil
7 News, The Denver Channel, ABC News, June 29, 2009 - Professor Gabriel Filippelli (Purdue School of Science) is interviewed in this story about lead contaminated soil.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/19897032/detail.html

Indiana Almost Out of Prison Space
Indianapolis Business Journal (Associated Press), June 29, 2009 - In article on how Indiana is running short on prison space, IUPUI Associate Professor Crystal Garcia (IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs) suggests that the state examine whether all maximum-security prisoners really belong in that classification.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20090603/LOCAL0103/906030339/1013/news04/

Also:
The Indy Channel.com, 6 News, June 28, 2009
http://www.theindychannel.com/news/19885851/detail.html

Inhaled Growth Hormone Safe for Children Deficient in This Key Protein
Medical News Today, June 26, 2009 - A multi-center clinical trial led by a Riley Hospital for Children endocrinologist has found that inhaled growth hormone is well tolerated by children with GH deficiency and that this easy-to-use method can safely deliver GH to the blood stream.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155410.php

Group Puts City on the Road to Long-term Thinking
The Indianapolis Star, May 31, 2009 - Matthew Tully's article on the first meeting of the Infrastructure Advisory Commission includes a quote by Dean Bill Blomquist (IU School of Liberal Arts), a commission member and groundwater issues expert.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20090531/NEWS08/905310394/1101/NEWS08/
Group+puts+city+on+the+road+to+long-term+thinking

Indiana Toots its Healthcare IT Horn
HealthcareIT News, June 25, 2009 - Indiana boasts one of the strongest health IT sectors in the United States, with five operating health information exchanges, HIT-adopting hospitals and physicians, innovative entrepreneurial organizations and a long history of groundbreaking HIT research through the Regenstrief Institute (IU School of Medicine) at IUPUI.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/indiana-toots-its-healthcare-it-horn

NIH Expands Human Microbiome Project
MediaNewswires, June 24, 2009 - The Human Microbiome Project has awarded more than $42 million to expand its exploration of how microscopic organisms that live in or on our bodies affect our health. Awards include $820,000 to J. Dennis Fortenberry, M.D., (IU School of Medicine) for a study of the male urethral microbiome and its relation to puberty, sexual activity and sexually transmitted disease.
http://www.media-newswire.com/release_1093498.html

Does 'Tiananmen + Web = Tehran'?
Washington Post, June 23, 2009 - In his article on the impact of social networking and its use as a tool for political activism, staff writer Jose Antonio Vargas quotes Professor Thomas Ho (Purdue School of Engineering and Technology).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/23/AR2009062301355.html

Olympic Divers Talk to Kids at IUPUI Camp
WTHR.com, Channel 13, June 23, 2009 - Two of Indiana's Olympic divers met with campers at the IUPUI summer day camp and shared their experiences about competing last summer in Beijing.
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=10579934&nav=menu188_5

Keeping Connected with Iran
Inside Higher Education, June 23, 2009 - Student involvement in protests in Iran lead to discussion of US-Iran academic relationships. IUPUI has since fall 2007 offered a unique, dual degree program with the University of Tehran in which Iranian engineering students split their time between the two campuses and receive degrees from both.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/23/iran

A Tough Week for Wackos, Nutcases, and the Self-Righteous
Hoosier Ag Today, June 21, 2009 - Using more than a decade of data from about 60,000 Indianapolis children, researchers at IUPUI showed that a child's weight did not fluctuate when a fast-food restaurant moved to or out of a neighborhood. "Fast food is not the boogeyman," said IUPUI economics Professor Robert Sandy (IU School of Liberal Arts).
http://www.hoosieragtoday.com/wire/comments/00189_swatt_212731.php

Also:
Inside Indiana Business, June 16, 2009
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=36154
Australian Food News, June 17, 2009
http://www.ibtimes.com.au/articles/20090617/new-study-refutes-link-between-obesity-and-fast-food-locations.htm
NewsGuide.us, June 16, 2009
http://www.newsguide.us/education/science/IUPUI-study-finds-living-near-fast-food-outlet-not-a-weighty-problem-for-kids/

Program Targets Rural Schools
WTHR, Channel 13, Eyewitness News, June 20, 2009 - West Lafayette - A new program intended to put more math, science and technology teachers in rural Indiana schools is moving ahead. Fifty-eight applicants, including 20 who will attend IUPUI, were chosen for the Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship program.
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=10567621&nav=menu188_2_8

Natatorium to Host National Swimming Championships as Qualifying Meet for World
WFYI: Inside Indiana Business, June 19, 2009 - The Indiana University Natatorium at IUPUI will host the ConocoPhillips National Championships, which will also serve as the qualifying meet for the world championships next month in Rome. Bill Benner interviews Meet Director Arlene McDonald (Natatorium at IUPUI).
http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/video-player.asp?HideVideoAd=1&ID=10001&CategoryID=60

IU School of Medicine to Study Cell Phone Use of Teenage Boys
IU News Room, June 16, 2009 - A $4.15 million, four-year National Institutes of Health grant will enable researchers at the IU School of Medicine to conduct the first health study of teenage boys using cellular telephones.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11162.html

Books Uncommon and Offbeat
Christianity Today, June, 2009 - "Whatever your views on predestination, you will profit greatly from this thoughtful book," says reviewer John Wilson of Peter Thuesen's (IU School of Liberal Arts) "Predistination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/june/21.56.html

Also:
The Indianapolis Star, June 9, 2009
http://blogs.indystar.com/thoushalt/2009/06/predestinations.html